How ancient pasts were used to interrogate modern injustices and promote visions of a better world
Complicating fandom's relationship to consumer culture
A fresh text and commentary on the pseudo-Aeschylean Prometheus Bound that imagines the play as a live theatrical performance
Upending the understandings of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the market reforms that followed
European football fandom as a cultural process in urban middle-class China
Explores the connections among interiority, capitalism, and fascism in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Japan
Dreaming of freedom through sound
How the Chinese liberal intellectuals launched the civil society movement and how it later disintegrated
The human story of Covid, from America's bellwether state
So much depends upon a yellow umbrella (or a pink hat)
Explores the complex interpersonal networks and differing ethical standpoints that shape the news in China
How twentieth-century ethnographers captured the diverse social worlds of outsiders
A penetrating look at how government workers make sense of their work, ascribe identity to the people they encounter, and account for their decisions and actions
Secularization in non-western contexts
Provides the first in-depth examination of what Chinese netizens think about various death sentences and executions in China.
We are willing participants in our own surveillance
Creating Gender Equality from the Ashes of Neoliberalism
Exploring skewed views of transnational and transracial adoption
Uncovers patterns of social interaction made visible through scenarios of economic exchange
Eleven papers explore the ecological ramifications of ethnicity in Southeast Asia.
Examines the politics of practical knowledge and the paradoxes of exclusion in contemporary social and psychological sciences
Twelve chapters, portraying diverse aspects of the contemporary Korean families and showing how they have come to have their current shapes